unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes … benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms …

reducing the generosity of unemployment benefits decreases wages, fosters employment and augments competitiveness as well as …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …

We empirically analyze the optimal mix and optimal generosity of unemployment insurance and social assistance programs … temporary earnings-related unemployment insurance. The optimal amount of social assistance is heavily influenced by income …

-related Unemployment Insurance. Reecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …

This paper emphasizes the two-way causality between the provision of unemployment insurance and the cultural … generate a lag between the introduction of unemployment insurance and a deterioration of the work ethic. Relying on a … calibration, I argue that it can account for a substantial fraction of the history of European unemployment since World War II. As …